Travel Blogs from Lindau

We also visited a local town about 30 minutes away by bus and drove through some beautiful mountain side scenery full of rivers far below very high bridges and tall grassy hills with mountain houses until we came to Appenzeller, a tourist town known for true Swiss traditions and for being extremely conservative (they still vote in the center of town ...

... to see some lovely towns along the way...and I think that was the intent of our trusty GPS all along. The castle and grounds were beautiful, but oh my gosh...the tourists!!!! We got there relatively early and there were already scads of people there! The tour of the castle was really impressive. So much of the original artwork is still there and intact. Unfortunately, ...

... head past the last village, following a quiet footpath up the valley as it gets narrower and steeper as daylight fades. There's one last town up ahead before the pass and I can see its lights not too far ahead. I figure I could try camping out, and if it gets colder that I can handle, I still have the option of hiking up to that town and checking into a ...

... some will come to a complete stop. On driver slowed down and swerved left, right, left right, not knowing what to do--even though I was a good 3 meters off the road! I guess it relates to the culture of everybody following a strict code of rules. So when someone is doing something against the rules (like a pedestrian walking in a place that's meant for cars) people get really ...

... on up the trail, zigzagging back and forth, back and forth, until I finally reach a rocky area of semi-waterfalls, with the beautiful waterfall not too far above.

Close enough. Time for a videoclip. I pause to soak in the view, then head on back down the moutain. By the time I reach the town of Auberbraz again, I've lost several hours and climbed nearly a thousand meters just to see a waterfall close up.